Go Lights Wireless

[Thomas Fichtner]

Hello,

at our theater, we use a simple light signal system, with which the stage manager gives signals and cues for sound, light, technical stage actions, and actor entrances. (Light on: Attention, Light off: GO). When we are on tour, there is an increasing desire to connect everything wirelessly, as it is sometimes not possible to run cables to individual locations. Does anyone have an idea if there is a simple signaling system with multiple channels, for example as an app with smartphones or in any other form?

Thank you very much.

Thomas

[page daniel]

Good Morning all,

Its a light...so that task and maintenance should lie in the purview of
the lighting department. But if you are being paid as a polymath or a
protean technician, then maybe this is in your job description.

Bluetooth devices would not be on my list of choices which is the
purview of most consumer devices and has crept into some theater
applications. But a DMX relay would be high on my list of things to look
at. A simple DMX controller and a DMX transmitter few very inexpensive
receivers along with a handful or
DMX relays should do the trick. Each go light would need a source of
power, but the relay should not care about the source of this power as
some where there is optical isolation in such devices.

Lots of solutions adding electronics to detect audio signal and close a
relay, should not be to tough to design. Audio signal could be
amplified (if necessary) and run through a relay coil. If you don't
like relays a simple transistor switch would work.

Unfortunately as wireless intercoms sprout everywhere go lights favored
by music directors and some front of house personnel are much harder to
find.

[Joe Wilson]

I'd be hard pressed to trust a wireless cue light system, personally.  Too much potential for failure, especially if you don't have feedback in your signaling system.

Back when I had an analog snake, I had some XLR shells that included a pair of 12V LEDs and would run them through XLR cable and my snake to a switch box at the SM desk.

These days we use ETC's CueSystem, which is over an IP network.

I imagine you could use a pair of wireless APs to create a wireless link and use an IP based cue light system pretty successfully.

That said, I strongly prefer wired signaling for cue lights.  

~joe

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